During the Soviet era rural areas were heavily populated and the school catered for 200 pupils.
The situation at the tower remains the same as in the Soviet era. But after the introduction of digital equipment, it will be quite different.
A Soviet era water tower and been modernised and all emergency fire ponds kept full.
Due to a decline of investment during the Soviet era, Russian oil production gradually fell thereafter and had fallen to around 6 million barrels per day by the mid-90s.
Life and work in Baikonur and its 10 cosmodrome are also pretty much what they were in the Soviet era.
In the late Soviet era, aspirations for Ukrainian independence were confined to a group of dissident writers and intellectuals.
In Russia, the average life expectancy for men has dropped to 60 from 64 since the Soviet era. For women it fell to 73 from 74.
Masterpieces of the culinary art of the Soviet era and more.
Tajikistan was known for its theater and famous novelists during the Soviet era.
